October 9 Born –
Johnnie Bassett (1935) – Blues session guitarist, singer/songwriter.
Pat Burke (1937) – saxophonist for The Foundations.
Overton “O.V.” Wright (1939) – Soul singer (“That’s How Strong My Love Is”).
John Lennon (1940) – The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band.
Pete Cosey (1943) – session guitarist for Chess Records, guitarist for
Miles Davis.
John Entwistle (1944) – The Who.
Nona Hendryx (1944) – singer/songwriter.
Clyde Jackson Browne (1948) – singer/songwriter.
Billy Murcia (1951) – drummer for The New York Dolls.
Sharon Arden Osbourne (1952) – music manager, TV show host and judge.
Dennis Stratton (1952) – guitarist for Iron Maiden.
James Fearnley (1954) – accordionist for The Pogues.
Ini Kamoze (aka Cecil Campbell, 1957) – Jamaican reggae singer.
Thomas Wydler (1959) – drummer for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
Kurt Neumann (1961) – singer/guitarist for The Bo Deans.
Mat Osman (1967) – bassist for Suede.
Vix (aka Victoria Perks, 1968) – violinist/vocalist for Fuzzbox.
P.J. Harvey (1969) – singer/songwriter.
Sean Lennon (1975) – singer/songwriter.
Brian Hurren (1980) – keyboardist for Runrig.
October 9 R.I.P. –
Helen Morgan (1941) – cirrhosis of the liver. Age 41. Broadway
singer/actress (Showboat).
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1973) – stroke. Age 58. Singer/songwriter (“Strange
Things Happening Every Day”).
Jacques Brel (1978) – pulmonary embolism. Age 49. Songwriter ("If You Go
Away").
Cliff Gallup (1988) – heart attack. Age 58. Guitarist for Gene Vincent and
His Blue Caps.
Mousey Alexander (1988) – heart and kidney failure. Age 66. Jazz drummer.
Milt Jackson (1999) – Age 76. Jazz vibraphonist, The Modern Jazz Quartet.
October 9 album releases –
The Carpenters – Ticket To Ride (1969)
Cream – Heavy Cream (1972)
Three Dog Night – Cyan (1973)
Judas Priest – Killing Machine (1978) UK
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather (1978) U.S.
Boomtown Rats – The Fine Art Of Surfacing (1979)
Barbra Streisand – Emotion (1984)
Armored Saint – March Of The Saint (1984)
Devo – Shout (1984)
KBC Band – KBC Band (1986)
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love (1987)
Steve Winwood – Chronicles (1987)
Kylie Minogue – Enjoy Yourself (1989)
Styx – Edge Of The Century (1990)
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Shooting Straight In The Dark (1990)
Placebo – Black Market Music (2000)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To
Heaven (2000)
Karla Bonoff – Karla Bonoff Live (2007)
October 9 events –
1929 – Gene Autry makes his first recordings, tracking “My Dreaming Of You”
and “My Alabama” with Jimmie Long for his first single for Victor Records.
1931 – Russ Columbo records “Prisoner Of Love” with the Nat Shilkret
Orchestra for the Victor label.
1938 – Bill Monroe makes his Grand Ole Opry debut.
1954 – American singer Don Cornell hits the #1 spot on the UK singles chart
with his single “Hold My Hand,” even though the song has been banned by the
BBC for the lyric, “kingdom of heaven.”
1957 – Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams appear on American Bandstand.
1957 – Perry Como, along with The Ray Charles Singers, records “Catch A
Falling Star” in New York City.
1959 – At 22 years of age, Bobby Darin becomes the youngest performer to
headline the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas' famed Copa Room.
1964 – The Rolling Stones cancel their planned tour of South Africa because
of an anti-apartheid embargo by the British Musicians Union.
1964 – Bobby Darin begins filming his eighth movie, That Funny Feeling, in
Hollywood.
1964 – The Beach Boys record “Dance, Dance, Dance” at RCA Studios in
Hollywood.
1965 – Jr. Walker and The All-Stars, Jackie DeShannon, Glen Campbell, Dick
and Dee Dee, and Roy Head all appear on Shindig!
1967 – Legendary New York DJ Murray the K is fired from radio station
WOR-FM - where he had moved to take advantage of the new free-form format
of FM radio - when the station's new owners decide to move to a set
playlist.
1967 – Already a member of the band, Doc Severinsen replaces Skitch
Henderson as The Tonight Show band leader.
1969 – For the first time ever, Top Of The Pops refuses to play the #1 hit
in the country, Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus," considered one
of the first "orgasm records" featuring heavy female breathing and moaning.
1971 – The Who play in front of less than 300 people at University Hall at
the University of Surrey. Opening the show is John Sebastian, who climbs on
stage with The Who to play harmonica on “Magic Bus,” becoming the only
outside musician to ever play with The Who on stage.
1971 – On John Lennon’s 31st birthday, a retrospective art exhibition of
Yoko Ono’s artwork entitled This Is Not Here opens for a two week stay at
the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Opening night guests
include Ringo and Maureen Starr, Phil Spector, Allen Klein, Bob Dylan,
Frank Zappa and others.
1971 – Van Morrison releases his single, “Wild Night” b/w “When That
Evening Sun Goes Down.”
1973 – Priscilla Presley’s divorce from Elvis is finalized at Los Angeles
County Superior Court in Santa Monica.
1978 – Former Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan marries longtime girlfriend,
model Kim Kerrigan (Keith Moon’s first wife). They remain married until
Kerrigan’s death in a car crash in 2006.
1980 – Gary Glitter declares bankruptcy in England.
1981 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum. Opening the show is Prince, who dresses in his
controversial bikini briefs and trench coat. Within 15 minutes, Prince
leaves the stage due to the crowd booing and throwing beer cans at him.
1984 – Ringo Star begins hosting the children’s television show, Thomas The
Tank Engine & Friends.
1985 – On what would have been John Lennon's 45th birthday, Yoko Ono
formally opens the three and a half acre Strawberry Fields garden site in
New York's Central Park.
1990 – All four members of The Stone Roses are fined £3,000 each after being
found guilty of criminal damage at their former record company’s offices.
1999 – The NetAid concerts - held to raise awareness of extreme global
poverty - take place simultaneously at Wembley
Stadium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wembley_Stadium_(1924)>
in London <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London>, Giants
Stadium<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giants_Stadium>
in New Jersey <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey>, and the Palais
des Nations <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_des_Nations> in
Geneva<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva>
. Wembley features The Eurhythmics, David Bowie, Bush, The Corrs, George
Michael and others. Giants Stadium hosts Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, The
Black Crowes, Bono, Wyclef Jean, Jimmy Page and others. Performers in
Geneva include Bryan Ferry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ferry>,
Texas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_(band)>
, Des'ree <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des%27ree> and Ladysmith Black
Mambazo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladysmith_Black_Mambazo>. The
concerts are streamed on the Internet, hence the event’s name.
2000 – The John Lennon Museum opens in Japan.
2000 – At a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, The Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band reunites to perform their signature song “Will The Circle Be
Unbroken.”
2001 – Joseph Johnson, hired to deliver a $300,000 sports car to hip-hop
star Missy Elliott, decides to take a late-night spin before delivering the
car, and crashes the 550-horsepower Lamborghini Diablo into a traffic sign
and a tree. Johnson is later sentenced to three years in jail and ordered
to pay $170,000 for the car and $1,975 for curb repairs at the site of the
accident.
2002 – On what would have been John Lennon’s 62nd birthday, his killer,
Mark David Chapman, is denied parole for the second time.
2003 – Ambrose Kappos, 37, of New York, is charged with three counts of
stalking and harassing singer Sheryl Crow.
2003 – For the first time in Billboard magazine's history, all of the Top
10 singles on the Hot 100 chart are by African-American artists.
2003 – Sting receives the CBE - Commander of the British Empire - from
Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
2006 – Barbra Streisand is heckled during her concert at Madison Square
Garden, and yells at the person to, “Shut the fuck up!”
2007 – The Imagine Peace Tower is officially unveiled by Yoko Ono in
Kollafjorour Bay near Reykjav’k, Iceland, on what would have been John
Lennon’s 67th birthday.
2007 – George Harrison’s solo catalog becomes available on iTunes.
2008 – Longtime vegetarian Paul McCartney calls for a boycott of McDonald’s
restaurants when the Liverpool fast-food joint puts his picture in the
window to attract customers.
2011 – Paul McCartney marries his third wife, American heiress Nancy
Shevell.
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